My Boss's Daughter: reviews

What the critics say average 2.8 from 16 outlets

• 6.0 The Village VoiceEd Park A pleasurably intense burst of anarchy with no moral in sight, thank God. Read
• 5.0 Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust My Boss's Daughter is not awful. It is a genial youth comedy that serves Kutcher well as a vehicle. That's it. That's all it tries to be Read
• 3.8 Tulsa WorldJohn Wooley A pretty good cast and a pretty good director are pretty much wasted in My Boss's Daughter.
• 3.0 New York TimesElvis Mitchell This muddled comedy of confusion feels as if it were a Farrelly brothers' comedy that has sat exposed to the elements long past its expiration date. Read
• 3.0 Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones A fine supporting cast (Andy Richter, Molly Shannon, Michael Madsen, Dave Foley, Jeffrey Tambor) manages to keep this comedy respirating for 85 minutes, but personally I believe in a movie's right to die. Read
• 3.0 The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt Not much to laugh at. Read
• 2.5 Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington This is a movie that boggles the mind: a bad-taste comedy that makes the average effort by the Farrelly Brothers (mysteriously thanked in the credits) look like a Merchant-Ivory film. Read
• 2.5 San Francisco ChronicleCarla Meyer Released Friday without a screening for critics, "My Boss's Daughter" tries screwball and gross-out comedy and fails on both counts. Read
• 2.5 The A.V. ClubScott Tobias The only real physical comedy in My Boss's Daughter comes from Zucker, Dorfman, and Kutcher stumbling over each other, but it's unlikely anyone will laugh. Read
• 2.5 Christian Science MonitorM. K. Terrell The real disaster is the slapstick-ridden script, which a great supporting cast is powerless to salvage. Read
• 2.0 VarietyRobert Koehler Director David Zucker, a master of whacked-out visual comedy during his "Airplane!" era, drops the ball here. Read
• 2.0 Film ThreatRick Kisonak a movie so thoroughly cretinous the people who made it couldn't get even the punctuation in the title right. Read
• 2.0 L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas This may be celebrity prankster (and pinup du jour) Ashton Kutcher's most elaborate practical joke to date: the gag being that this is a real movie and that he's a real movie star. Read
• 2.0 SalonHeather Havrilesky Painfully awkward and out of sync from the first scene, in which Kutcher, horribly miscast as a big dork, swoons over Tara Reid, horribly miscast as a dreamy love interest. Read
• 2.0 Common Sense MediaNell Minow Kutcher comedy is crude, offensive, and all-around bad. Read
• 1.3 The Independent CriticRichard Propes Everything about this film stinks. Read